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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostess must be ready, too, for any conversational emergency. Example: if Mr. Smathers down the table should remark: "Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, Number 6, is truly magnificent," the Prepared Hostess will instantly reply (preferably with an imperceptible flutter of the eyelashes): "Yes. but Bartok scores the gaps. That's the difference." This will immediately show the guests that she is the sort of person who knows about hollyhocks, and almost guarantee that the guests will hurry home to hunt up their copy of this week's TIME, flip quickly to NATIONAL AFFAIRS, and read Fried Shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Mild as the President's recommendations were, farm-state members of Congress found them too hard. "Antifarmer," cried North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Barked Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender, Cooley's opposite number in the Senate: the request for lower price supports "doesn't stand a ghost of a chance." Nor does the U.S., if Cooley and Ellender have their way, stand a ghost of a chance of coping with the farm scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Farm Reform? | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Religious organizations, from the Church of England Moral Welfare Council to the Roman Catholic St. Joan's Alliance, though alarmed at the number of whores on London streets (a spectacle unmatched in the U.S. or Europe), opposed the bill as likely to make prostitution more covert, and thus more professionally organized. Labor's cherubic Anthony Greenwood objected to the phrase "common prostitute" in the bill as violating the traditional presumption of innocence. Not for long did the debate stay on this legalistic level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pushed off the Sidewalk | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...looking at the frescoes has joined Orozco's most fervent disciples. In his new book, Mexican Journal (Devin-Adair; $6), Selden Rodman writes that "if there was any doubt in my mind that Orozco was the great artist of our age, it has vanished." But Rodman quotes a number of the master's countrymen to prove that the winds of fame blow cold as well as warm. Sample opinions: ¶The late Painter Diego Rivera: "Orozco was the only great artist of the counterrevolution ... He felt no compassion, made no affirmation. Because society disapproved of Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Winds of Fame | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

There was many another sign of steady recovery. The number of workers drawing unemployment compensation dropped, as did new claims for jobless pay. Department store sales ran 5% above the year-ago level. January auto production, geared closely to sales, moved 11% higher than last year's rate (see chart). American Motors was selling three times as many Ramblers as it did in January 1958. Studebaker-Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Expansion Ahead? | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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